ChatGPT Now Lets You Schedule Reminders and Recurring Tasks 22
ChatGPT can now schedule reminders and recurring tasks -- but only if you're a ChatGPT Plus, Team, or Pro subscriber. TechCrunch reports: With tasks, users can set simple reminders with ChatGPT such as, "Remind me when my passport expires in six months," and the AI assistant will follow up with a push notification on whatever platform you have tasks enabled. Users can also now set recurring requests to ChatGPT, such as, "Every Friday, give me a weekend plan based on my location and the weather forecast," or "Give me a news briefing every day at 7 a.m." [...]
Users can access tasks by selecting "4o with scheduled tasks" from a dropdown menu in ChatGPT. From there, they can send ChatGPT a message telling the AI assistant what reminder or action they want to create. At times, OpenAI says ChatGPT may suggest certain tasks based on chats. Users can set and manage tasks by chatting with the AI assistant on any platform, or through a dedicated tasks manager tab that's only available on the web app.
Through the tasks feature, ChatGPT can now browse the web on a set schedule, but it will not run continuous searches in the background or make purchases. For example, you could instruct ChatGPT to check once a month for concert tickets to see your favorite artist in your area, but you can neither tell the AI assistant to alert you the moment the tickets go live, nor can ChatGPT buy tickets for you. That said, it's a step toward those [agentic] systems.
Users can access tasks by selecting "4o with scheduled tasks" from a dropdown menu in ChatGPT. From there, they can send ChatGPT a message telling the AI assistant what reminder or action they want to create. At times, OpenAI says ChatGPT may suggest certain tasks based on chats. Users can set and manage tasks by chatting with the AI assistant on any platform, or through a dedicated tasks manager tab that's only available on the web app.
Through the tasks feature, ChatGPT can now browse the web on a set schedule, but it will not run continuous searches in the background or make purchases. For example, you could instruct ChatGPT to check once a month for concert tickets to see your favorite artist in your area, but you can neither tell the AI assistant to alert you the moment the tickets go live, nor can ChatGPT buy tickets for you. That said, it's a step toward those [agentic] systems.
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By the way, the new reminder system breaks a few of ChatGPT's existing functions, but we're sure you'll find the addition of a task scheduler a worthy trade-off.
Re: wow! (Score:2)
<opens notebook and pulls out pen>
So it's now like a (Score:1, Funny)
...drunk Siri.
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How many other things is he getting someone else to do and then claiming the credit at the end?
Schedule (Score:2)
"Hey, ChatGPT! My trash collection is every second Wednesday. Oh, unless the Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday of that week is a public holiday... then it's moved to the Thursday. Recycling follows a similar schedule, but offset by a week. And... go!
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"Hey, ChatGPT! My trash collection is every second Wednesday. Oh, unless the Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday of that week is a public holiday... then it's moved to the Thursday. Recycling follows a similar schedule, but offset by a week. And... go!
got it. I've scheduled a reminder every second for "My trash collection Wednesday. Oh, unless the Monday"
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I am the author of Remind [skoll.ca] which can issue such a recurring reminder, and I asked ChatGPT to write me a Remind script to do it.
It failed. Miserably.
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https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchatgpt.com%2Fshare%2F6787... [chatgpt.com]
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Yep, that is a good job. It's better at that sort of thing than at trying to write a program, which is essentially what a Remind script is.
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I took so long because it has ADHD and went off on a mortgage and load tangent... See this bit in Details:
Cold-calling limited-impact businesses in the mortgage and loan sectors, I’m focusing on a script that adapts based on unique responses. This strategy is underpinned by a commitment to targeted, strategic outreach.
Casio DC-7800 (Score:2)
My Casio DC-7800 (which still works) has been doing this for years. Nothing new to see here ... move along ... move along.
Oh boy! (Score:3)
So now I can use a ridiculous amount of electrical energy in a massive data center to do what my smartphone could do by voice command 5 years ago?
Progress!
Why? (Score:2, Interesting)
My first reaction to this was "So what, AI can now do basic tasks that consumer software has done since the 1980's", and of course, long before that as calendars, appointment books, digital organizers, memo notes, a string around your finger.
And, I see by all the posts above me, that that is how everyone else reacted.
Why are they making mention of this? Seriously, I would love to hear how others might interpret this - what are your thoughts -
1 - The AI people (ChatGPT in this case) are so self absorbed th
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automate first post! (Score:2)
Can't be any worse than GMail (Score:3)
GMail these days seems to put its own summary at the top of a concert ticket, airline booking etc. The original email from the the airline is appended below. This might be "helpful" except that Gmail's summary is frequently wrong. Like, I have seen the summary get not only the departure time wrong, but also the DATE. If you were actually using GMail's summary to fill your calendar, you would miss your flight. Or show up the day before your flight. And remember, the summary comes FIRST. The real email from the company issuing the ticket is at the end. Then GMail's calendar will use its erroneous summary to populate your calendar, and your phone will alert you that you are about to miss a flight/appointment... but the message is WRONG.
Note that this is with all of GMail's default settings. I am not trying to do anything "clever" here, or using an experimental feature. It's completely broken. So if Google can't get it right, I have zero expectation that ChatGPT will fare any better.
It's coming for your data and Project Managers (Score:1)
Yes, it's a PR stunt to stay in the news but it's also a backdoor into your task lists for training (not going to touch on privacy more than that).
Give it access to learn how people actually use Tasks as opposed to how companies have told us how we are to use them.
In some of the reply threads I see how we programmed to "use Siri". We need to prompt it and manually explain it. ChatGPT should be able to read the same flyer you got in the mail and figure it out. It will also help when those people need to crea
Wouldn't trust this, ChatGPT has a terrible memory (Score:2)
Also, I asked it to output the full con
Something is weird at OpenAI (Score:2)
For a company that constantly announces AGI is in sight and the end of the worlds economy as we know it. They have absolutely no focus.
Who cares about this? Why do they bother with GPTs, why do they bother with video generation, something many other do already.
These are all things that the all mighty AGI could just do better anyhow, right? ;P